with my. no holds barred look at the global financial headlines cons a report on. tis the season to go spending britain's sales spree begins we'll look at exactly who is pocketing the profits. charisse canada terror run of ones that the country is making a dangerous move by following washington and taking in militant groups off the target. and syrian activists claim government shelling has killed twenty children in the north rebel fighters attack areas close to the turkish border.

news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. on carry just whether you prefer to hit the high street for the best deals or snap office online this is the day to do it but boxing day bargain hunters are out in force and although they're keeping the u.k. still ringing you might be surprised to know whose pockets are being mined playboy has been finding out. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok now you

know the ways and the things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers can have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like the chemist chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an

australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pickle selling off. some people and also closing down some of their home manufacturing and you know it's interesting what's the reaction analysts say great use for investors although it is bleak news just before christmas. as for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control

particularly over in the g. companies which means decisions about our energy could control and supply and that made in london there maybe in paris and or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was boots the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases an income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often

difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell paulie boy r t london. tehran is warning canada that it's a major dangerous move by taking on a taurus iranian militant group off its terrorist calendar is a follow the similar move by the us in accepting that the m e k has renounced violence and wants peaceful regime change in iran rafa national looks at the organizations record and hears from some iranians who are wary of legitimacy that mohamed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings attendance all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin this is how

we killed time and the pain from the torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this time that. valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he'd joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members a month reasoners but mohamed refused. they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shah and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the u.s. embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the

terror continued after these lawmakers evolution with the association of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one thousand nine hundred seventy m. a k. joined america's list of terrorist organizations along with al qaida and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq is still viewed ek as terri's group but america's position has now flipped any case is iran's democratic ah this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get any case of the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs went to extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into

a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying we came a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main support of beasts to reduce groups or counters because they use from that through to through political ads. new yorker reporter in his article called our men in iran reveals how members of m.b. k. were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada one one this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those question about ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network unnamed u.s. officials confirmed and b.k.

was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after the terrorists a man iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as ridden job is a very popular and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort outside to hear on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to reign in authorities feel surreal to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to move. from iran. activists

claim a shelling in northern syria has killed twenty people least eight of them said to be true in the province where the allege attack happened has seen fighting between the rebels and troops escalating recent months the u.n. arab league envoy who's been in syria trying to resolve the conflict is to hold talks in moscow this weekend a middle east correspondent his latest. hearing at least eight children have been killed over that number could be as high as twenty the videos and pictures that you're witnessing have been posted to you too but of course it's almost impossible to verify the authenticity the claims are being made by the syrian observatory for human rights the organization known as the age in the gaelic needs to be said that it has given misinformation in the past back in may when there was the houla massacre it came was that some one hundred people had been killed but later a lot of the massacre looked water around it were found to have been false the russian foreign ministry has warned against this kind of this information and has

made the point that this organization is spreading information that cannot be absolutely trusted according to the foreign ministry there are only two people working this organization and as a result their credibility is questionable we've witnessed in the last few days the syrian rebels claiming that the syrian president bashar assad has been using chemical weapons against them at the same time we've also heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that the assad regime has done what it needs to do to put these women we in safe hands we understand that they've moved to just two locations we're also hearing the same kind of sentiments being expressed by the israeli vice prime minister moshe ya'alon he said that information that assad's regime has used chemical weapons against the militants is most likely and true activists are claiming that the civilians have suffered injuries consistent with exposure to some kind of poisonous gas before hearing also from the israeli vice prime minister. as the opposition has an interest in drawing in international

military intervention that each party has its own agenda and its own way of waging what is essentially an information war again the point needs to be made that we have no independent verification of what is happening just in this area and as the israeli vice prime minister said and to quote him as things stand now we do not have any confirmation or proof that chemical weapons have been used. now there is growing global concern over israel's planned settlement expansion it's approved twelve hundred more homes in jerusalem raising fears that two state solution could be lost forever we report later. and our team will cause more major events from twenty twelve as we take a close look at the u.s. presidential race and the candidates some would like a new sound that's that's ahead.

i never thought i could earn a living this way. not ali a show of ours a lawnmower should just small arms so there's a lot almost machine building paul and not all your sources count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the plant's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so i was here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than

others. this is the year old truck factory brushes the number one truck maker or gravel look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these johnsons sold around the globe hit a base of brand new breeds are waiting to be delivered to a client seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. i can go far to drive. whoa that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to trouble to walk every morning but with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my

. welcome back here with more world stories for you. there's a warning to israel back that settlement expansion is a threat to peace and the two state solution of the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in east jerusalem with the total number of housing units planned in the past few weeks to five and a half thousand these are illegal under international law around half a million people already live in israeli settlements or peace campaigner ron pundak says their fate and the expansion of homes have become political bargaining chips. settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only

elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the ality sent practices on the ground of their five hundred thousand are being divided at all two hundred thousand total with the engine was a lemon and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we agreed delineate the borders of jews then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close to just sent to the green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offer and shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just

a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it's which we'll have to go over and be excepted and we'll be. compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes within the national interest of the majority of israelis. now egypt's president is trying to rally people behind the new constitution which got over sixty percent backing in a controversial referendum turnout was know it clears the way for a parliamentary election in a country that remains deeply polarized the potence insisting both the poll and charter are deeply flawed and a threat to freedom and angry protests is blocked traffic in cairo on tuesday after final results was announced new charter empowers the traditional parliament's chamber it will hold legislative powers until the no house is elected the next two months the opposition is worried that the muslim dominated body which held its

first session on wednesday will deal a blow to rights for women and minorities. from the institute of arab and islamic studies says the constitution and referendum are both above board. this is the first. constitution that you have the president not the egyptian and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other such as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democrats a collection. to use to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on their promises about. the security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one

percent of voters declining going down maybe because they are not the opposition and more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for must. not deliver so now people have expectations and they can control politicians. movie about osama bin laden's violent demise has spooked the cia on our website tell me why america's community was so worried by what they saw they want to consider a drama not a documentary of what really. life could be sustained on mars thanks to bacteria from siberia the science and the story at r.t. dot com. russia's upper house of parliament has approved the ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children the draft law as a response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on

russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations it option restrictions got you know u.s. backing in the chamber or as its passing in the state duma we can go despite strong opposition from campaign is a media. need presidential approval to become law the act is named after a two year old russian boy who died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a car on a hot day critics say the move deprives thousands of orphans the chance of finding a loving family. now that's a take a look at some other stories making news this hour. there's been an explosion at a fireworks a warehouse in nigeria's largest city resulting blaze destroyed neighboring buildings of course the initial blast shaking the windows of homes several kilometers away there are no immediate reports of fatalities there at least thirty people have been treated for injuries. thousands of iraqis have rallied against the

machine like the government demanding more protection of rights for sudanese protesters accuse leaders of marginalize them and join the country into sectarian conflict is the third major protest in less than a week since the arrest of ten all the gods of senior sunni official committee launched an insurgency in iraq after the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion brought the shiite majority to power. suicide attacker who tried to blow up a u.s. military outpost in afghanistan has killed at least three people and left seven more injured guards opened fire a minibus packed with bombs with a vehicle exploding before reaching the entrance to the camp chapman compound. says it was targeting local police working for the americans there were forty one people including six u.s. troops have died in attacks this year in the volatile city in the pakistan border.

iran is preparing to conduct a week of naval drills in the gas fields of the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf war ships submarines and missile defense systems will be tested and iran says it's a peaceful demonstration of iran's defensive capabilities promising it won't violate international law and respect the maritime borders of neighboring countries. now with the new year nearly hair he is taking stock of the events which shaped twenty twelve today we look at coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have a multibillion dollar campaigns to get a voice. we have been running the election of close to your is more than two weeks before the

election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show and cetera et cetera so given voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system which is a multiple parties to what might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open arms to be right you vicious rather than a very narrow people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know of the right heads in the country to compete and then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they are pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine and on foreign

policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military interventions against military expansion ideas that don't fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever right here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election code that would be the pie in the sky is that i would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties because parties

into that debate which are blocking traffic monitors adults are preparing to write i think you mean i want to thank you and i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. well shortly we'll tell you the story of two the most violent criminal gangs in u.s. history stay with us. deadly rivals so decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be.

two of the most violent gangs in u.s. history. is just all model kill or be killed with the colors matching the national flag.

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